Gunn Sights: Taking Aim on Selling in the High-Stakes ...
 This book is on target.: As an individual on the career track and a Boeing employee, I find the candid views of Mr. Tom Gunn to be quite insightful and entertaining. I'm appreciative of the opportunity to go along for a first-person flight spanning the [... more]
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Taiwan's Statesman: Lee Teng Hui and Democracy in Asia
Excellent, insightful, and useful work: Taiwan's Statesman: Lee Teng-hui and Democracy in Asia Richard C. Kagan Naval Institute Press, 2007, 231p In an oft-quoted passage, the ancient Roman biographer, Plutarch once explained his philosophy thus: " [... more]
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Sole Survivors of the Sea (Blue Jacket Books)
Sole Survivors of the Sea: From the back of the dustjacket: " The ship still had weigh on, and it was burning fiercely down to the water line. A stream of burning oil was slowly closing round her stern. We realized this, and, by swimming as fast as [... more]
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The Navy Cross: Extraordinary Heroism in Iraq, ...
Stories of Brave Americans in Battle!: The Navy Cross is second only to the Medal of Honor. The medal has been awarded over 6,900 times since 1919 for "extraordinary heroism not justifying an award of the Medal of Honor." The combat exploits of [... more]
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Long Voyage Back: A Novel
Worth reading: Not a bad read based upon its limited scope. The majority of the action takes place upon a trimaran sailboat in Atlantic and Caribbean waters. It has a well done believable beginning as the "war clouds gather." The escape from a [... more]
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Nimitz
Great subject; less than stellar execution: E.B. Potter's Nimitz is an adequate depiction of the Navy's preeminent leader of WWII. Adequate, vice great, as Potter did not seem willing to criticize, although Nimitz was evidently a man who did provide few [... more]
$21.95
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Crossing the Line: A Blue Jacket's World War II Odyssey
Amazon.com Review: Alvin Kernan, seeing no prospects in his native Wyoming, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the spring of 1941. As a seaman on the U.S.S. Enterprise, he saw the destruction and smelled the fires still burning as the aircraft carrier returned [... more]
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Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War ...
Fun Reading About A Dangerous Business: A great story about the testing of missles and the intergration of these missiles with the fighter aircraft of the era. George Marrett's style of writing makes for easy reading. He takes a highly technical subject [... more]
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Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the ...
Solid research, shocking accounts: As an undergraduate in a modern Russian literature course, I read "Kolyma Streetcar" which was about an incident that ocurred on one of the "slave ships" which is documented in this book. As gruesome [... more]
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Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin ...
A Readable Book on a Prickly Character: I've just finished CONFEDERATE ADMIRAL and the more I reflect on it the more solid it seems. A great job of professional history and biography. Symonds sets Buchanan in his time, and does a great job of presenting [... more]
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Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story
The real mission of the battleship Bismarck: The author, and one time adjutant to Captain Lindermann, the commanding officer of the Bismarck, reveals the real mission of the battleship which is a new concept to most. It was very exciting to read the [... more]
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Lessons Not Learned: The U.S. Navy's Status Quo Culture
A poor study, but a "must read" nonetheless: I opened Mr. Thompson's book with great anticipation. I finished it with equally great disappointment. Considering Mr. Thompson's credentials, I have expected a constructive review and critique of [... more]
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